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SUBMITS  TO  THE  CHURCHES, 

ITS  SUPPORTERS,  AND  THE 
PUBLIC,  THE  FOLLOWING 


WORK  RECORD 

October  25 — December  8 


AS  REPORTED  TO  ITS  BOARD 
OF  DIRECTORS  DECEMBER  8, 

BY  ITS  EXECUTIVE  STAFF,  IN 
EXECUTION  OF  THE  BOARD'S 
OUTLINE  OF  DEPARTMENTAL 
WORK,  I9I449I5,  AS  APPROVED 
BY  THE  ADVISORY  COUNCIL, 
JUNE  18,  1914,  AND  DEHNED 
AS  FOLLOWS: 

I 

Give  first  place  to  development  of  responsibility  districts 
in  Federation’s  38  Clergy  and  Laity  I,eague  areas 
of  Greater  New  York. 

II 

Issue  directory  of  churches  by  tracts,  for  Greater  New 
York. 

(a)  Memberships  1901,  1906  (Federal  Census  Re- 
ligion), 1913-14. 

(5)  List  work  for  foreign-born. 

(c)  Clergy  lists. 

(rf)  Interpretation  of  tract  results,  with  maps. 
Issue  maps  of  churches. 

Secure  tabulation  of  State  Census,  1915,  by  tracts. 

III 

Continue  ; (a)  Church  Vacation  Schools,  loth  season. 

{/>)  Clerical  Conference,  5lh  season. 

Enlist  members  in  commissions  and 
departments. 

(c)  Law  Enactment  Bureau. 

Id)  Laity  League. 

Enlist  members  in  commissions  and 
departments. 

(e)  All  other  existing  department.®. 

IV 

Develope  Committees  or  Commissions  as  far  as  possible 
as  follows  ; 

{a)  Child  Welfare. 

(h)  Religious  Hducation  : 

After  School  Plan. 

Gary,  Ind  , Plan. 

(c)  Immigrant  Welfare  : 

English  ; Civics  ; Naturalization. 

(d)  Housing  and  City  Plan. 

(e)  Economic  Conditions ; 

Saloon  Waste. 

War  Waste. 

(/)  Recreation  : 

Censorships. 


DEPARTMENTAL  WORK 


New  York  contains  / of  every  ig  of  the  nation' s population; 
r in  66  is  involved  in  the  following  progress  of  Protestant. 

RESPONSIBILITY  DISTRICT  EXTENSION. 

W.  62nd — W.  126th  Streets,  219,000  people. 

Canon  John  P.  Peters  (Nov.  10),  Dr.  S.  DeLancey 
Townsend  (Nov.  17),  Dr.  Frank  Oliver  Hall  (Nov.  20), 
Chaplain  Knox  (Nov.  19),  the  four  neighborhood  chair- 
men of  the  West  Side  Clergy  and  Laity  League,  have 
gathered  the  neighborhood  clergy  in  four  meetings 
to  diviue  the  territory  among  the  churches  in  respon- 
sibility districts.  The  whole  population,  from  62nd 
Street  to  110th  Street,  with  the  exception  of  a few 
small  districts,  has  been  assigned. 

The  League’s  Executive  Committee,  meeting  with 
Dr.  Anthony  H.  Evans,  President  (Dec.  4),  has  put 
much  time  on  preparing  the  form  of  its  co-operative 
advertising.  $300  will  be  spent  by  the  League  to  put 
co-operative  invitations  to  worship  over  every  family 
threshold.  50,000  handsome  folders 'will  be  printed. 

From  110th  to  126th  Streets  there  is  a difficulty  in 
the  fact  that  the  Cathedral  of  St.  John  the  Divine  is 
not  supposed  to  have  a parochial  policy.  Unless  it 
changes  plan,  the  district  has  only  one  Protestant 
church  to  20,000  people. 

From  94th  to  110th  Streets  the  aveiage  assignment 
is  over  10.000  persons. 


W.  14th  St. — W.  62nd  Street,  268,000  people. 

Dr.  Jefierson,  Broadway  Tabernacle,  will  send  out 
notice  for  territory  south  of  62nd  Street  to  46th 
Street  as  soon  as  the  Federation  can  undertake  to  be 
represented  at  the  meeting. 


In  Bronx,  (600,000  people),  the  League  holds  a meet- 
ing Dec.  18th.  In  two  sections  of  Brooklyn,  (250,000 
people),  the  churches  are  asking  for  assistance  in  de- 
veloping the  plan. 


On  Staten  Island,  (80,000  people),  the  work  took 
definite  shape  in  the  formation  of  an  official  minis- 
ters’ union,  which  will  promote  co-operative  respon- 
sibility, Dec.  2,  Canon  Pascal  Harrower,  President. 


There  is  absolutely  no  doubt  that  the  Federation’s 
responsibility  district  plan  has  taken  hold  of  the  con- 
viction of  the  Protestant  churches  in  Greater  New 
York.  It  needs  a staff  of  assistant  secretaries  for  its 
full  development. 


DEPARTMENTAL  WORK.— (^Continued) 


CLERICAL  CONFERENCE. 

On  November  27th,  eighteen  out  of  twenty-two  mem- 
bers of  the  Clerical  Conference  Committee  were  present 
at  its  meeting.  That  aftern  jon  Archdeacon  Cunning- 
ham, of  Ely,  England,  spoke  to  about  ISO  clergy  on 
“War  and  Civilization.” 

Dr.  Nehemiah  Boynton,  Chairman  of  the  Committee, 
has  plans  well  in  hand  for  Clerical  Conference  meet- 
ings up  to  May  next. 

The  next  meeting,  December  16,  will  deal  with  the 
unemployment  problem. 


ECONOMIC  CONDITIONS  COMMITTEE 
Canon  George  William  Douglas,  Chairman. 

Twenty  members  of  this  Committee  attended  its 
meeting  November  27th,  and  appointed  a programme 
committee  on  plans  for  developing  interest  in  inter- 
national peace  in  the  churches  of  New  York.  The 
speakers’  list  of  the  New  York  Peace  Society  has  bee: 
placed  at  the  service  of  this  Committee,  of  which  Mr 
Laidlaw  is  Chairman.  In  addition,  ten  other  speaker 
have  volunteered.  Mr.  William  W.  Ellsworth,  Presi 
dent  Century  Company,  is  giving,  free,  whatever  ar 
pointments  are  made  for  him  by  the  Federation,  r 
illustrated  address  for  which  he  ordinarily  receives 
handsome  honorarium,  with  the  understanding  th 
an  offering  be  taken  and  sent  to  the  Belgium  Reli 
Fund.  At  the  West  Side  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  December  6: 
the  offering  was  about  $30. 

A speakers’  list  will  be  issued  shortly. 


INTER-CHURCH  UNEMPLOYMENT 
COMMITTEE 

Administrative  Section 


*Nehemiah  Boynton,  D.D.,  Chairman 
♦Walter  Laidlaw,  Recording  Secretary 
George  B.  Agnew  Frederick  Lynch 

♦Mrs.  Francis  M.  Bacon,  Jr.  Henry  M.  MacCracken 


David  Baines-Grifhths 
W.  W.  Bellinger 
♦Charles  L.  Bernheimer 
♦William  C.  Breed 
Arthur  J.  Brown 
Henry  E.  Cobb 
Frank  M.  Crouch 
Jonathan  C.  Day 
♦George  William  Douglas 
Howard  Duffield 
Raymond  B.  Fosdick 
Frank  Oliver  Hall 
John  Haynes  Holmes 
♦Miss  Frances  A.  Kellor 
♦Landreth  H.  King 


Charles  S.  Macfarland 
♦Thomas  S.  McLane 
J.  Howard  Melish 
William  P.  Merrill 
George  F.  Parker 
Karl  Reiland 
Junius  B.  Remensnyder 
Theodore  Sedgwick 
Charles  L.  Slattery 
♦Ernest  M.  Stires 
Charles  L.  Thompson 
George  U.  Wenner 
Luther  B.  Wilson 
Cornelius  Woelfkin 
S.  Edward  Young 


♦Members  of  Executive  Committee 


RECORD  OF  WORK. 


Inter-Church  Unemployment  Committee. — {^Continued) 
Advisory  Section 
Robert  Fulton  Cutting,  Chairman. 


Louis  Annin  Ames 
Leo  Arnstein 
J.  G.  Bacchus 
Wm.  Sheafe  Chase 
Julius  Henry  Cohen 
Ralph  M.  Easley 
David  H.  Greer 
Mrs.  Edward  S.  Harkness 
Mrs.  Helen  Hartley  Jenkins 
John  A.  Kingsbury 


Samuel  McCune  Lindsay 
D.  J.  McMahon 
Marcus  M.  Marks 
Mrs.  Walter  E.  Maynard 
Mrs.  Frederick  B.  Pratt 
Thomas  J.  Riley 
Samuel  Schulman 
Joseph  Silverman 
Gaylord  S.  White 
Stephen  S.  Wise 


This  special  committee,  appointed  November  27  by 
President  King  on  the  request  of  Canon  Douglas, 
Chairman  of  the  Economic  Conditions  Committee,  was 
instituted  as  a result  of  a request  from  the  social 
workers  of  the  city  for  the  formation  by  the  Federa- 
tion of  a committee  to  express  and  direct  the  interest 
of  the  churches  in  the  unemployment  problem.  The 
membership  of  the  committee,  so  far  as  its  clergymen 
are  concerned,  is  largely  the  same  as  that  of  the  Econ- 
omic Conditions  Committee,  but  at  the  request  of  Canon 
Douglas,  Dr.  Boynton,  as  an  active  pastor,  is  the 
Chairman  of  the  Administrative  Section  of  the  Com- 
mittee, with  Mr.  Robert  Eulton  Cutting  as  Chairman 
of  the  associated  Advisorv  Section. 

Rev.  Charles  Stelzle  is  engaged  for  three  months  as 
Secretary  to  work  under  the  direction  of  the  Executive 
Committee.  Mr.  Stelzle  commenced  work  December  8. 

The  general  definition  of  the  functions  of  this  Com- 
mittee is  : 

1st. — To  cooperate  with  governmental  authorities  in 
the  establishment  and  development  of  public  employ- 
men  agencies  by  state  and  city,  and  with  other  relief 
measures ; 

2nd. — To  cooperate  with  business,  labor  and  charit- 
able organizations,  by  means  of  special  committees,  and 
to  prevent  duplication  in  dealing  with  the  unemploy- 
ment problem ; 

3rd. — To  be  a means  of  communication  between  vari- 
ous churches  dealing  with  unemployment,  to  the  end 
of  unifying  and  standardizing  such  work,  so  that  it 
may  be  made  more  effective ; 

4th. — To  recommend  various  measures  for  individual 
church  action  to  the  churches  and  synagogues  of  New 
York  City  for  the  solution  of  the  unemployment  prob- 
lem, and  also  to  recommend  measures  for  district  and 
neighborhood  work,  in  the  same  interest,  to  the  bor- 
ough sections  mapped  by  the  Federation; 


DEPAR  TMENTAL  WORK.—{  Continued) 


5th. — To  gather  systematically  from  the  churches 
exact  information  as  to  cases  handled,  problems  met, 
work  done  or  undone,  in  the  parishes’  experience  with 
unemployment  this  winter,  for  possible  use  in  encour- 
aging, stimulating  or  demanding  future  governmental 
action  for  the  permanent  solution  of  the  problem. 

6th. — To  treat  the  unemployment  problem  as  a prob- 
lem of  applied  religion. 


INFORMATION  AND  ASSISTANCE  GIVEN 
Population  Research,  District  Equipment 
and  Other  Departments  , 

Ascension  P.  E.  Church,  24  charts,  suggesting  neighbor- 
hood responsibility  district  service,  as  drawn  up 
by  Federation  in  1912.  Dr.  Grant  in  sending  for 
them  wrote  on  sample  an  instruction  to  his  secre- 
tary as  follows : “Keep  this  before  Ascension  Par- 
ish as  a standard.  Send  one  to  every  member  of 
the  vestry  and  one  to  me.” 

Harlem  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Mr.  F.  H.  Revell  supplied  with 
statistics  to  determine  policy  of  new  building. 

This  information  has  been  acknowledged  by  him 
as — “Just  what  I wanted.”  It  will  have  its  part 
in  determining  expenditure  of  a considerable  sum 
of  money  from  the  $4,000,000  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Fund. 

Women’s  International  Patriotic  League,  three  meet- 
ings arranged  for  Ex-Senator  Frank  J.  Cannon,  of 
Utah,  in  West-Park  Presbyterian  Church,  Labor 
Temple,  and  Tremont  Methodist  Church. 

These  meetings  are  designed  to  arouse  interest  in 
the  passage  of  an  amendment  to  the  Federal  Con- 
stitution to  prevent  the  Mormon  Church,  which  is 
still  polygamous,  from  strengthening  its  grip  as  a 
political  power  in  the  West. 

Horace  Mann  School,  nationality  distribution  in  New 
York.  31  copies  of  the  Federation’s  single  sheet 
tabulation  were  supplied  this  school  for  use  in 
study  of  Social  Service  class,  and  paid  for  at  20c. 
each. 

Congregational  Church  Extension  Society,  church  dis- 
tribution on  University  Heights. 

A Congregational  Church  on  Manhattan  Island 
is  compelled  to  move.  Information  given  Dr.  Shel- 
ton, the  secretary  of  the  Church  Extension  Com- 
mittee, is  designed  to  determine  where  perhaps 
$200,000  shall  be  spent. 

Columbia  University,  Distribution  of  Nationalities  in 
Manhattan  and  Bronx. 


RECORD  OF  WORK. 


Information  and  Assistance  Given. — {^Continued') 

Broadway  Tabernacle,  Church  and  charity  distribution 
in  Tabernacle’s  pa^'ish. 

Americans  in  New  York. 

St..  Peter’s  Church,  Westchester,  information  about 
Federation’s  history. 

Committee  of  Mercy,  eight  inquiries  answered  to  assist 
it  in  raising  funds. 

Brooklyn  Lutheran  Mission,  Nationality  distribution  in 
Brooklyn. 

Methodist  Episcopal  Cit-??  Mission,  Nationality  distri- 
bution, Manhattan  and  Bronx. 

John  Hall  Memorial,  suggestion  of  lecturers. 

Y.  M.  C.  A..  West  Side,  course  of  four  lectures  ar- 
ranged for  Sunday  afternoons  in  December,  speak- 
ers William  W.  Ellsworth,  President  Century 
Company;  Canon  Douglas;  Dr.  Arthur  J.  Brown 
and  Mr.  Laidlaw. 

Mt.  Morris  Baptist  Church,  suggestion  of  peace  class 
and  possible  leader. 

Clinton  Avenue  Congregational  Church,  list  of  church 
forums  in  New  York. 

Wall  Street  Journal,  population  below  Chambers  Street. 

St.  Thomas  P.  E.  Church,  work  of  Federal  Council  of 
Churches. 

Rutgers  Presbyterian  Church,  religious  character  of 
neighborhood. 

Temple  Shearith  Israel  Sisterhood,  sex  distribution  of 
Manhattan  and  Bronx. 

All  Angels  P.  E.  Church,  cards  for  neighborhood  sur- 
vey. 

Methodist  Preachers,  speakers  secured  for  weekly  meet- 
ing. 

Bound  Brook,  N.  J.,  forms  for  religious  canvass  sup- 
plied. 

New  York  Journal,  Whitfield  Anniversary  suggestions. 

Lafayette  Avenue  Friends  Church,  methods  of  coopera- 
tion with  neighboring  churches  supplied. 

Greensboro,  N.  C.,  suggestions  to  exclude  immoral 
plays  asked  for  and  given. 


DEPARTMENTAL  WORK.— {Continued) 


Evangelistic  Committee,  location  of  Protestant  Polish 
churches  in  New  York. 

District  Columbia  Playgrounds  Association,  congestion 
in  New  York. 

Professor  Giddings,  Columbia  University,  tabulation 
methods. 

Belgium  Relief  Fund,  churches  of  New  York  and  neigh- 
borhood informed  of  opening  of  uptown  branch 
and  encouraged  to  use  it. 

Mrs.  Elmer  Black,  churches  addressed  in  interest  of 
betterment  work. 

Y.  W.  C.  A.,  Manhattan,  lecture  course  suggestions. 


SECRBTARrS  ADDRESSES 


Topic : “Four  Days  in  a German  Military  Prison  and 


Their  Lessons,”  unless  otherwise  noted. 


Oct.  25.  Presbyterian  Labor  Temple,  500.  Subject: 
“Church  Federation.” 

26.  Woodlawn  Reformed  Men’s  Club,  Brooklyn, 


125. 


Nov.  1.  West  23rd  Street  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  150. 

9.  Rutherford,  N.  J.,  Presbyterian  Men’s  Club, 
175. 

11.  East  Orange  Lincoln  School  Association,  100, 

19.  Religious  Press  Club,  20. 

Staten  Island,  C.  E.  Union,  125.  Subject: 
“Church  federation.” 

29.  St.  James  P.  E.  Church  Forum,  200. 

Dec.  6.  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  Brooklyn,  40. 


“/  wisk  this  address  might  be  given  before  every 
church  in  New  York  City)’  FREDERICK  LYNCH., 
Secretary,  Church  Peace  Union. 


SECJ^ETARY'S  ADDRESSES— {Continued) 


Advance  Appointments 


Dec.  13.  West  Side  Clergy  and  Laity  League — ^Anti- 
Mormonism  Meeting. 

14.  Philadelphia  Baptist  Ministers’  Association. 

15.  Borough  Park  Presbyterian,  Brooklyn. 

16.  Unitarian  Clu’j,  Manhattan  Hotel. 

18.  Bronx  Clergy  and  Laity  League. — Responsi- 
bility District  and  Anti-Mormonism  Meet- 
ing. 

20.  West  Side  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

23.  John  Hall  Memorial  Men’s  Club. 

27.  Washington  Avenue  Baptist  Church,  Brooklyn. 

31.  Smithtown,  L.  L,  Community  Meeting. 

Jan.  7.  Centre  Church,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  Men’s 
Club. 


DIRECTIONS  FOR  DECEMBER^JANUARY 
WORK,  ISSUED  DECEMBER  8 

1.  Commence  Immigration  Committee  work, 

Jonathan  C.  Day,  D.D.,  Chairman. 

2.  Organize  Religious  Education  Committee. 

3.  Plan  Recreation  and  Housing  and  City  Plan 

Committees. 


